Infrastructure Throne

The warm light of the morning light spread over the roof of the City Lord's Mansion, and the red terracotta tiles were coated with a golden red glow.

In the meeting hall, a group of officials had already taken their seats around the long table, waiting for a long time in the chat, before Shen Qingze and Yan Zui arrived late.

Jin Dawei presented the latest information from Beiji City to the two of them, and when he glanced over the faces of the two, he couldn't help being taken aback.

The officiant wore a high-necked sacrificial robe of moon white satin today, the buttons were buttoned up meticulously, his lips were torn, and there was an obvious red mark.

The city lord wore a tulle scarf around his neck, and the two of them sat upright, reading the information without saying a word.

Jin Da looked suspiciously at the hot clear sky outside, and when he turned his head, he spotted a dark red mark on Yan Zui's neck with sharp eyes.

His heart skipped a beat. The officiant and the city lord must have...made a move, right? !

He carefully observed the expressions of the two of them, and there seemed to be nothing wrong, probably because he was overthinking.

"My lords." Teng Er got up, his muscular body was like a hill, tightly blocking the sunlight from the window, casting a shadow on the long table.

After he returned from Mingzhu City, he returned to his old profession and became the chief officer of the intelligence department.

"Our intelligence agency's spies in Beiji City reported that Beiji City was already in chaos. Angry people surrounded the City Lord's Mansion. The City Lord's Mansion urgently dispatched troops to suppress it. Unexpectedly, it backfired and caused a mutiny."

In the meeting hall, everyone couldn't help but began to discuss in low voices, if Yuanliu City encountered a similar situation, how to deal with it.

Everyone discussed and discussed, and the final conclusion is that drinking poison quenches thirst.

Apart from demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall and delaying the time a little, there is no way to turn things around.

Without the support of strong physical resources, finance is nothing but a castle in the air, and the hotter it is, the more terrifying it is.

The chief logistics officer, Teng Changqing, looked at the detailed report and kept wiping his sweat with his hands.

When Lu Sanshu proposed to open a bank and print banknotes, he, like the noble officials in Beiji City, thought that they could print as many banknotes as they wanted, but was rejected by Shen Qingze on the spot.

At that time, I didn't understand the truth of it. Now that I see the financial collapse of Beiji City, I can't help being afraid for a while after thinking about it.

"Beiji City has already collapsed from the inside." Teng Er's thick voice continued, "My subordinates think that it's time for us to send troops to clean up those bastards!"

Yan Zui raised his eyebrows: "This time, I will personally lead the army."

Everyone raised their heads in amazement, Xiao Meng's eyes widened: "Master City Master?"

Yan Zui raised his hand to interrupt him, and said in an undeniable tone: "Soldiers are precious, take advantage of the civil strife in Beiji City, and take it down quickly, so as not to have long nights and dreams."

Seeing that Shen Qingze did not object, Xiao Meng put his military boots together and saluted concisely: "Yes!"

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The order to attack Beiji City was quickly issued to every low-level officer, and armaments and logistics were quickly mobilized.

For this conquest, the guards had already sharpened their knives, all kinds of materials and military supplies were prepared for a long time, and even the siege plan was prepared, and they practiced in the school grounds every day.

I thought that after defeating Mingzhu City, the city lord would order to clean up those grandchildren in Beiji City, but everyone waited and waited, but they never got the order, and instead let Beiji City run wild for a few months.

The study on the third floor of the City Lord's Mansion.

Yan Zui sat in the high-backed chair behind the desk, crossed his legs, and looked at Shen Qingze opposite him from bottom to top.

"Master Priest, what are your orders?" He slowly took off the scarf around his neck, revealing a few dark red strawberry marks.

Yan Zui caressed his neck in distress: "Didn't it just bite you a few times? Look at what you did, I'm so hot."

Shen Qingze ignored his little complaints, coughed lightly, looked away from the other party's neck, and knocked on the table: "As the owner of Beiji City, why do you go there yourself?"

Yan Zui didn't answer, but just took out the trade war anecdotes written by Shen Qingze from the drawer, and flipped through the pages: "Writing this must have cost you a lot of thought."

Shen Qingze was taken aback.

"You want Beiji City." Yan Zui raised his eyes, the pupils were slightly bright, as if there was a fiery light in them: "You know, as long as you ask, no matter how much the price is, I will fight for you."

Before Shen Qingze could open his mouth, Yan Zui closed the plan and came out from behind the desk: "In the past few months, the many plans you have laid out have gone in a big circle. I would rather divide the enemy's interior in such a slow and complicated way, I guess ..."

Yan Zui squinted at him: "You don't want the guards to suffer casualties."

Shen Qingze was really surprised, Yan Zui always seemed to have an unusual intuition about herself.

He remembered how Yan Zui read his notes under the lamp last night, focused and peaceful, but a few thin pages of manuscript seemed to be read into a thick book by the other party.

He may not understand all those complicated theories, but it does not prevent him from reading his own intentions.

Shen Qingze lowered his head, and the corners of his lips curled up with a rare tenderness: "I have something for you."

Yan Zui watched in surprise as the other party brought a long and narrow wooden box, which was as tall as a person.

He suppressed his throbbing heartbeat, stretched out his hand and opened the wooden box——

A majestic silver spear appeared in front of his eyes. The tip of the spear was in the shape of a cross. The hair on the tip of the spear was blown off. The cold is flowing on the jade face, faintly flickering.

The gun and the jade are integrated, as if they were born and cast, and the whole texture has been improved to a higher level, even laymen can see its extraordinary.

"This is... the dragon scale jade I gave you?"

Shen Qingze nodded: "The Dragon Scale Jade should have been inlaid on the weapon, it would be a waste to put it on me."

He looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction. After refining and scrapping countless pieces of steel, he finally produced this one, which can be enchanted and strengthened. It has a little more spirituality than ordinary cold weapons.

Yan Zui caressed the newly acquired weapon, and couldn't put it down. Although the long whip could also be used, the gun was his favorite weapon.

Although the firearms are powerful, the reloading speed of the matchlock gun is too slow. Once the enemy gets close, it is not as useful as a fire stick.

Yan Zui casually took a flower gun in his hand, and held the barrel of the gun behind his back. He glanced at Shen Qingze, and suddenly leaned towards him: "Actually, I also have selfish intentions."

Shen Qingze was startled.

Yan Zuiyin's red lips pressed against his pinna: "I don't want you to work too hard."

This kiss was like a touch of water, so faint that people couldn't recover. Yan Zui straightened his body and smiled lightly: "Then, wait for me to come back, my Lord Priest."

Soldiers are expensive and fast.In the afternoon, Yan Zui led the army out of the city on a raging fire, and the whole army rushed forward quickly, and must rush to Beiji City within a day and night.

Before leaving, Shen Qingze looked down by the window on the third floor of the City Lord's Mansion.

Yan Zui straddled the red horse, holding the silver gun in his hand, intertwined with the black military uniform to form a chilling aura.

The scorching sun was pouring down from the sky, Yan Zui seemed to sense something, and when he turned his head, he saw a gentle and warm color reflected on the glass windows on the third floor.

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North Jicheng.

Since the city lord's mansion was besieged by the rioters, the Beiji city lord and nobles essentially lost their right to rule the city.

The city lord of Beiji issued several city lord orders announcing the abolition of paper money issued indiscriminately, but because there was no compensation for the corresponding real gold and silver, the rioters and soldiers did not buy it at all.

In desperation, the nobles had no choice but to promise that the people would exchange the same amount of gold and silver within three days.

But they have no intention of fulfilling their promises.

The guards staying behind in the City Lord's Mansion, under the lure of a huge reward, escorted the nobles out of the chaotic crowd and escaped from the City Lord's Mansion.

The nobles tried every means in the city to plunder Yuanliu coins, and even bought them with a lot of real money——

The treasures that cannot be taken away will be dug up and swallowed up sooner or later. Rather than cheapening those untouchables for nothing, it is better to exchange them all into Yuanliu coins and sell them slowly later.

Beiji City was in complete chaos, the security patrolling guards became decorations, the city lord's mansion was empty, and chaos and disorder spread throughout the city overnight.

The people who found out that they had been deceived again were finally outraged!

During the city-wide search, someone discovered the city lords and nobles who were disguised and tried to flee in the chaos.

There was a violent conflict between the two groups of people. The people dominated by hatred and desire to survive lost their respect for the nobles. They fought with the heavily armed guards with sticks and hatchets.

Crowds of irrational people pushed each other and piled up under the city wall. The Qin family, who sold medicinal materials, wanted to take the opportunity to escape, but unexpectedly, they were also involved in this chaos.

The aristocrats who were blocked were anxious and angry. They were used to being aloof. How had they ever received such insults?Let those humble mud legs ride on your head!

After an unknown amount of time, the wooden city gate could no longer support the thrust pressing on it, and it rumbled open.

"The city gate is open, run! Get out of here!"

The opening of the city gate seemed to give the nobles a glimmer of life.

Under the protection of private soldiers and guards, the nobles broke through the city gate where the rebel soldiers were stationed, and fled wildly in a panic.

Just when everyone was about to cry for joy and escape safely, thunderous hoofbeats came from far and near, and the ground under their feet trembled and wailed.

Everyone looked into the distance blankly, only to see a rushing black wave rapidly approaching at the end of their field of vision.

Where the horse's hooves flew, the sky was filled with earthy yellow dust, countless black shadows were hidden behind the dust, and the silver armor was shining brightly under the scorching sun.

In the crowd, someone shouted: "It's the soldiers and horses of Yuanliu City! They're here!"

The nobles of Beiji City were terrified. This is the army that defeated the beast tide and Mingzhu City one after another. It is completely different from the mob composed of rioting people and soldiers in the city!

Then a funny scene appeared, the nobles who were scrambling to get out of the city gate, started to retreat crazily at this moment.

"Go back quickly and close the city gate!"

But who cares about them?

The rioters in the city didn't know what happened outside, they rushed out, chasing and beating the nobles who persecuted them. The nobles outside the city were frightened by the army of Yuanliu City, and kept pushing back, trying to rely on the city wall to block them.

Two groups of people huddled together into a ball of sandwich biscuits at the narrow gate of the city, until the army led by Yan Zui approached the city, "cooperated with the rioters inside and out", and made dumplings for the nobles of Beiji City.

Yan Zui sat tall on the back of the fiery horse, held his spear upside down, and looked down at them from a height.

I thought it would take a lot of effort to clean them up, but I didn't expect to see such a ridiculous and pitiful scene.

He raised his left hand as a gesture, and with a crisp gunshot, the crowded city gates became strangely quiet.

The guards who were hired due to the high salary surrendered immediately.

When the rioters saw the regular army, they immediately woke up from the chaos, and they didn't dare to breathe out.

The rebellious Beiji city lords and nobles collapsed to the ground. The only thing that accompanied them from the beginning was the piles of paper money that were fluffy, and now they were scattered on the ground like waste paper, and no one picked them up.

The fire commanding soldiers opened the way, followed by the soldiers, and entered the city to disperse the crowd. The knights arrested the nobles of Beiji City who had no resistance and took them away one by one.

The insane city lord of Beiji suddenly calmed down when he passed by Yan Zui, and looked up at him.

"Are you the City Lord of Yuanliu?"

Yan Zui stared at him indifferently and did not speak.

The Lord of Beiji sneered: "Shen Qingze is a devil! Are you proud? Young man, let me tell you, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and a city can only have one city owner!"

"You can't control him, let that devil continue to grow, sooner or later you will regret it!"

"I will keep my eyes open and wait for the day when you will fight to the death!"

"Hush—" Yan Zui raised his index finger to his lips, squinted his eyes, "You are very noisy."

City Lord Beiji: "..."

Yan Zui played with the silver gun in his hand, and said slowly: "Do you know why you lost so badly?"

"Because of your vision, you can only see such a small city."

The City Master of Beiji trembled his lips, Yan Zui walked past him on horseback, and said calmly: "The city can be his, but he can only be mine."